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Prot4lgala and,Qatholic in this respect, the martyrs of the Re fortnation had suffered ,in vain. Mr. 'W. SMITH said no one, in or out of that House, was farther removed from Catholic principles than he was. He con sidered the Reformation to have been the struggle of truth against error, and that the former had triumphed in the triumph of the Protestant cause. But he was of opinion that the people ought:to, be left to their own religious feelings, and that the State should poly interfere with their actions. It was actually necessary that the poor should have some sort of education, and he would 'father duly thould be educated upon Catholic mind- Phis than hig4.4l. It•wria a disgrace to this country generally that , for the aix.hundretlyeaa.s, during, which we had held pos se/elan or.lieland, the peoplehad, up to this moment, been left in ti kat& of deplorable ignorance. • N , exprossed-himselt favourable to education ernirally t hut any system of educati , n in Ireland, without *el introduction of the Holy Scriptures, should have his entire tbs. aiipt'obrtion. Mr. IV. .r. BANKES concurred in a great part of what had fallen from aid Hen:: Member' far Dover. It had been said by the Hon. Member for Norwich, that it was a disgrace to this country that the poor of Ireland remained uneducated. He would aek whether it was 'not rather a disgrace to the Priests who 'hittl 'kept them in ignorance, because ignorance was the pareMbhitiperstition. 1t had been said that the Holy Scrip. tureetbrened no part of the system of education in our own schodlUP He conk] answer for the school where he had spent 12 yeeti , of hie life, that of Westminster, in which be had passed froturibellOweSt to the highest form, that theTrayer-Book and the.Biblb.were in common use. C 61 .1 'PRE NC El was of opinion that the progress of education • tik Ireland bid been equally impeded by the Priests and by those enthusiasts who have lately created so much disorder in that countrY.:'' Indeed he believed that the latter class of well meaning perAons, in their zeal for making proselytes, had done moreinjury to education than the Boman Catholic Priests and tishops themselves. Within his own experience, upon his own estate, 4orne arrangements by which education was proceeding under the sanction of the Priests had been broken up by the interference of these persons. But he believed there was a de sire for cilucatien and'for an examination of the Holy Scrip. tare, pervading die body of the Irish population, which could not be•suppreSsed or resisted by the Priests, were it not for the interference of strangers. It they trusted to the intelligence • of the Irish people alone, he was convinced their minds would become enlightened in spite of any attempt to keep them in' perpetual ignorance. lie objected to the setting up of two standards of edOcation in Irelanit, , rind thought it the duty of Government to seek nut shat neutral ground upon which the children of the two professions should meet to receive the com mon benetitS of instruction and he did believe that if it had not been for the interference of that mischievous Society, dur ing the last' two years, such an object would now have been effected; and that the two religions, united in the bonds of har mony, *mild' have been reaping the advantages of education upon a syitem founded on those great religious principles com won't° both erectlA‘ , ' Mr. M. FITZGEBAIOD said that the wrath and indigna. Lion whichhad been poured thrth against Popery by the Hon. lifer:Mei for Doti,er must have been prepared beforehand, as it did not twisty in any ulegrer to tine language of the petition, or to the' spet.dir With' which his Hon. Friend had presenter? it. He was convinced that the Catholic Clergy required nothing mere than Lobe met in .a apirit , of conciliation, to induce them to agree to the, introduction of education. But a meddling set of sectiiriant hitt spread themselves' over the country, and by their absurd attempts at proselytism excited a feeling of rancour, which had raisedup a bitter hostility against reading the holy. Scriptures. 'the opinions expressed by the Hon. Member for Dover were not only contrary to the recommendations of the Cum:it : tee of Irish. Education, but, as he believed, opposed to the opinions and, wishes of ,the Church Eitablishment in Ire . laud. tie was con v inced that if the establishment had been left to itself instead of being supplanted by a set of itinerant preacherA, they would not have placed the country in its pre sent state of • irritable and angry feeling. Indeed he was not sure iihethertheir attachment to episcopacy was not one of the greatest crimes of the Catholics in the eyes of these zealots, and. that, they did not wish, to make them proselytes for the sake of overturning episcopacy altogether, and erecting their own -forms in its steed. • _ _ The petition wee then. read. On the question being put, 4 ' that it do lie upon the, table,P Mr. ,l, SMITH rose. Ile was anxious, he said, to remove an erracotta impreesion under which two lion. Members who had spoken appeared to labour. The petitioners, he could most truly assure the House, pact no wish to exclude the reading of the Sacred ,ieriptures. They merely claimed the right wide)! , ervety man in this country would think himself aggrieved, if de prived of—namely, to put such books as they deemed most Imitable into the hands of the children of their communion; and this was clearly it most reaeotiable demend. Neither the iii. shops nor the Priests of the Catholic .Church objected to the reading of the Bible, but beheld it necessary that its meaning should be illustrated by certain notes and comments, wh)elt as ,certained the acceptation of the site,red text, according to the Catholic Church. Mr.: BUT'PERWORTH said that the Catholic' ystem ex. alluded the Bible, and therefore that the Catholics had no reason to ask money of the State for the purchase.of other hooks. It was.not thesoct to which he belonged that took a part in the lt:duclition Society ; hut he subicribed merely as an individual, ignorance best suited the purposes of the Priests, and all would have been quierif the tioelety had not stimulated them to emu lation. At one of the fteciety!s meetings in Kilkenny, which was got, 1115 by several respectable Clergymen of the Established .-Cburch,. the Priests desired the people to rush upon the plat. form, so that .thoie who. occupied it had to escape with their No, POI.") NPAMR,T said, tliat the evidence of Mr. Rocht'ort pee the direbt contradiction to the statements of the Iron. 'Member SW' Dever. Tlien tlr. Ilochfort there was not a mar.: tuniallle i and unexceptionable character in the country; suet what gave peculiar force and authority to his testimony was,'lliat' lie pit:Sided as Chairman at the very meeting in Kil, kenny, *birth tees eliargedwith disorderly conduct by the MO. Iblember, The statement of the lion. Member with regard to the exclusion of the Bible by' Catholics, was also unfounded in Ina. It was Artie that they held it inconsistent with the tenets of their religien, to ,stiffer the reading of the Scriptures untie cornpanied by the interpretation of notes, and in that point they were borne out and countenanced by the opinions and practice of many dittinguished Members of the Protestant hierarchy. It was strange enough that one set of men should assume a right to cominand the reading of the Scriptures without note or com ment, and' 'tithe name time deny the right of another set of men to annex each commentaries as they deemed essential to the inetrecalim of their community., The latter was plainly its fair an exercise of right as the former ; and if one sect preferred the rending rut the Bible without notes, they were at liberty to fol, low their own choice, but had no authority to prohibit the pub lication of ranee to those whe conceived them to be necessary.-- Ile protested Most strongly against denouncing men for doc. trinett'which they had disclaimed ; thus atfecting to know more about the tenets of another communion than the members of that communion ' . dm/Iselin:it. The House had now before it the euecissffilresult of the unassisted efforts of the Catholics in the cause:" of education, as well as the failure old Society which had been assisted by Parliamentery grants. These were the natural eireCts (0,. any attempt toll force a mode 'of education on the peOple; and he could 'assure the House that the people of Ire land would: sooner: go altogether without assistance, than have a spotlit thrust upon them against their The petien was then ordered to be printed. Mr. J. SMITH took occasion to put a question to the Hon. Secretary for the Colonies. _lle had read in a New South Wales paper, entitled The .y;orey Gazette, that the Grand Jury bad visited the prison and found certain warrants signed by a Ma gistrate for the infliction of torture. In one itlitalne an incli. victual was sentenced to, to receive 25 lashes a day until he made a particular disclosure. For five mornings successively he un dement the allotted punishment, and'on the sixth day be was taken before the Magistrates, but no confession having been elicited, the infliction of the stripes was repeated on that and on subsequent days. The question, therefore which the lion. Gentleman had to propane was whether that' Magistrate held any, and what situation under ,Government. Mr. W. HORTON said, that the individual alluded to, held a sit-widen in the Council (as we understood the Hon. Aletn- WO worth 'about 8001. a year. Dividing punishment, in order to compel criminals to confess..—tt practice which-he by no means meant to jutaify—was yet the ant:lent and uninterrupted prac tice of the Colony, and one of which the very accusers of the Magistrate in question were guilty. m r , nitiGnT enquired whether certain Papers relative to the *Weirs of Ne,w South Wales Were to be laid before the lidase, In pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed some time since Mr. W. HORTON answered in the affirmative. Air. J. asked whether the Council of New South Wales had not passed an Act of Indemnity t favour of the Illegistrate ui whose conduct he had alluded, Mr. W. HORTON replied that they had; for it was deemed unfair that at: individual should be held responsible for acts which were in accordance with the uninterrupted usage of the colony, and Si* w hich no exclusive blame ought to attach to s i ng l e person, while so many others had done the same thing with im pun ity. 11. FITZ° E E AL' I) gave notice of a motion on the *object of punishment, in New Oath Wales. lIANK CNAltTlift AMENDMENT BILL. the CitA et; 1,1,0 it'd the Bit:AV:ita moved the Order • of the Illy for ring into a Committee V ow the Bank Charter haria .„ nia . " Speaker do leave ,n t question being put Ist rile Chair" r nURNE V . objected to the principle of the lIW. Ile instanced the case of a Joint Stock Company, the Solicitors of which had sent circulars to many persons of distinction, request-• ing them to become partners in the concern, which was, to have a Governor and Deputy Governor, and at, the same time stating that it was not necessary for them to take any.shares or to sacri fice any portion of their time or attention. Such was the solid, system of banking now held out to the public. He recollected about four years ago, When the rage for Joint Stock Cotnpanies commenced,' that the : first.institution of the kind was a Joint Stock Company to consist of Protestant Clergymen and Dissen ters, for the punishment of apple-women who sold fruit on Sun days, and the confiscation of their apples. If all communication between the country Banks and 'London were cut off it would either render the measure, absolutely null, or it would inundate the country with the worst species of hank paper. He - would re commend the House to reject the bill altogether until the bank charter was determined, : and then to put the banking system on a good foundation. The House then resolved itself into a Committee. On the reading of the clause which rendeted all the partners of a joint stock bank equally responsible, Mr. PEAHSE addressed the house, but in so low a tone that he was quite inaudible in the gallery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not enter into the views of his lion. Friend on the subject, nor, with all respect for the batik, could be think the . country in such a . state as to anticipate ill con Sequences from the establishrdent of banks on a more extended scale than they stood according to the present law. It was not necessary to argue in favour of the principle of the bill, which carried with it the evidence of ge neral approval froin the stages through which it passed, as well as from the concurrence of the Bank Directors, who, including his Hon. Friend, were induced to wave their individual opinions on good grounds. There was no necessity for argument, as the reasons were obvious, and such as must strike the mind of every man. It was quite plain that the Bank could not do business for the whole country ; the attempt would be perfectly impracticable. But, even supposing them able, were they still to limit the number of partnere in Woking concerns •to six ? What magic; : he would ask, was theie in the number six ; or where was the danger in a greater number? He had himself received one of those circuhtr letters alluded to by the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Gurney), stating the number of shares de signed for the establishment to by, if he recollected rightly, a million, at U. a share, and regliested bins to become one of those Honorary Directors, who wore to haie nothing at all to do—(the only part of the proposal which be liked),—(A laugh.) —Such a plan, no doubt, was absurd in the extreme, and he was conionced would never take . plate. But though a bank might be established on foolish principles, were they therefore never to give extended powers ter the establishment of banks ? Ile regretted that the NUtionel Bank had not given more faci lities. The consequence of their retaining some of their exalt. sive privileges was, that the Bill was less perfect than it other wise would be; but that was no reason why it should net be to a certain degree useful to the country. Mr. LVSTER said the question was hew to keep out a bad character from a Bank ; and it was surely easier to doeo where there were only six partners than where there were Sixty.— None but poor men would venture to embark in a concern of sixty partners, where all the members were equally responsible. On this ground, he conceived .that the multiplication of part ners was truly objectionable. Mr. I%IONCK said; that there could be no fair trial of the proposed plan under the restrictions by which It was clogged. It would be found a most inconvenient thing to the country ; for a paper currency, in order to - be generally useful, should bear the nearest practical resemblance to a metallic currency. In the first place it should be secure ; but security was not the only requisite character. Universality was equally indispen sable ; but all universality was destroyed when notes resembled local tokens. The ineonvenience arising from this want of uni. veniality the currency was sufficiently exemplified : by the notes: already existing which were not ,payable in London, which though secure enough, yet frequently put the poor holders to an expence of half-a-crown - to get them changed through the agency of couch-drivers. He agreed with the lion. Member for Newton in recommending a postpenement of the measure till the expiry of the Bank Charter. Mr. S. RICE opposed the measure, and objected to the mo. nopoly-of the Bank as favoured by the Bill. 111r..PEAIICE eiplained. Mr. J. P. GRANT-objected, that by this Bill two Treat an influence and controttl lied been given to the Bank of England over the affairs and interests of Country Banks.. if these Bankers were to be limited as the Bill proposed; then, unless some of the, partners, in their individual capacity, chose to cc , commodate a customer within the distance with a draft for any 'Mll under 501., say 4:;/., the country customer could not be ac come-Witted. That this niode of evading sit Unfair a law would be resorted to, there could be no doubt. Now he did think it would be better in the• Legislature to restrain from attempting , to do that, which it appeared almost impossible it could do effec tually. It was right that parties so circumstanced should not be allowed the prlrilege to sue or be sued without the pre. vious incorporation, of the company. If right as a principle with reference to other companies, it must surely be right as appli j cable to Bankers. It would he moat injudicious, then, to en dow Bankers under such circumstances with superior privileges in the lump as it were, when they had itin their power to go to the Government of the country at onee'and procure en Act of Incorporation, which would answer all these purposes, but which would be only granted'by Government after having duly investigated the objects 1)r which those parties sought the pri vilege of being incorperated, and could not be granted except ! on the serious respoosibility of Ministers themselves,.as an midi ' tional guarantee that the privileges thus conferred ehouldnot be abused. • . Air. T. WILSON thought the great and alarming number of late failures throughout the country might have satisfied:the Hon Member es to the, propriety of any further experiments on credit. Indeed, he did not hesitate to say, that - had not the Bank of England come forward as it did, and discounted libe rally, the evil would have been still•mure alarmingly felt. It was certainly desirable that the Bank of England should exer cise a prudent contralti over the credit of the country. things went on prosperously, and there was no alteration in the exchanges to the prejudice of this country, the spirit of over trading would go on unchequed; but for the controuling power whtch the Bank always now had it in its power to exercise; but when the period arrived, as it must, that the Exchanges were against tins country it must , be attended with ruinous conse. quences to the community, if the Bank should not previously .hsve taken measures prudently'and in time to occasion u con: traction of the issues of Country Bankers. The clause was then agreed to. When the next clause.was read from the Chair. Mr. UERRIE proposed the introduction of the words and other Promissory Notes:. Air. BRIO HT objected to it and said if it was persisted in he would divide the Comthinee on it. _ The ArIi)RNE V..GENT RAI, explained that the words had been omitted in copying out the bill, which would be nu gatory without them., The gallery was cleared for a division, but the clause was, agreed to without dividing the Committee. On the next clause for preventing any number of persons, within 65 miles of London, transacting the business of bankers, a discussion took place. ' Mr. DENMAN objected at some length to the principle. of the Bill, which was so abortive and incomplete, that he most sincerely hoped some one would divide the Committee on it. ' The CHANCELIMit of the EXCHEQUER considered the argument of the lion. and ',earned Gentleman totally in applicable in the present stage of the Bill. Any objection to the principle was perfectly irrelevant and a waste of time in Committee on a 11111. Indeed, it was clear that he never could have read the correspondence between his Majesty's Govern ment and the Hank. There was not a word about discount in that correspondence. In answer to a question from Mr. Pascot GRENFELL, The ATTOIt NEY-0 ENERAI. explained, that according to this clause, certainly no persons acting as tinkers in Nor. wieb, for instance, could do n o as bankers in London, or discount. which latter, he believed, formed the . principal bug nears of bankers. Mr. tInE`FELI, said it was impossible then that any Joint Stock Company could ever be lbrmed on a principle with effect. Indeed it could never be imagined that persons in the banking business in the country would consent that. the bal. lances which remained'in their agents bands in town should be useless there, and incapable of being employed profitably for their interest, until they returned in specie and the lump to the • country banker.. • I.'EAItSE proposed to report progress, and ask leave to tilt again. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said report ing progress would not expedite the consideration of the He should therefore propose to postpone the clause which was then the subject of discussion and proceed to the other clauses. ' When they were disposed of , he should have no objection to report progress. If. the Committee Ibllowed t hat course the y would make all, the progress they could, and come. to the cop • sideratioh of the particular clause on another day. • • - The suggestion of the Right lion. Gentleman, after a few words front Mr.,V. FIT ZGEII A I. I), IluatE, and thq AT-. , TORN EY-GEN E RAL, was adopted. . The clause was postponed.- • - • - The other clauses of the Bill'wero.then.agreed to. Mr. ltanonEw reported progress, and ebtainedleave to sit ,again this day se'nnight. • • OFFENCES,At 'SEA: BILL. , ; • AIr.,HUMI rose on the Order for the third re adin g a Bill, and wished for ionic explanation on the object of tl4 ; Bill. of toe (341"t' 4a Mr. CROKER Said the Bill was a renewal of the vld law, which gave Magistrates the authority to commit for trial per sons whom they had the power of trying. It had been the law since the reign► of Henry VHI., but having expired, the present Bill was to renew it. _ The Bill was, read a third time and passed. The Irish Lands and Tenements Bill was read a third time and passed. The Irish Stamp Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, The other Orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at O) o'Cr.ocx. IIIAJORITY AND MINORITY On illr. Abereronibie's Motion for.Reforining the Representa tion of the City of Edinburgh.—April 13, 1826. MAJORITY. Alexander, J. Forster, Rt.lion.t. Martin, R. Abercromby,lln. G Fellowos, W. U. Martin, Sir T. B. A'Court, E. H. Pane, V. Monteith, H. Acland, Sir T. Fremantle, Itt.lln. Miles; P. Arbuthnot,ltt Hon. W. 11. M'Naghten, E. A.' C. • Fitzpiald,ltt.llon, Musgrave, Sir P. Ashburnham, Hon. .V. Mundy, G. P. • .ooulbrn,Rtfinll. Nicholl, Rt. Hon. Brydges, Sir .1. Grant, G. 11,; si r J. Bourne lit. ',Hon. (lower, Lord F. L. Onslow, Sergeant Bourne, Grant, Rt. Hem. C. Only, C. H. S. B a k er , E. Grossett, J. It.. Ozmantown, Lord Byron, Thos. Iluskisson,ltt Hon. Palmerston, Vise. Berresford, Sir J. W. Peel, Itt. Hon. It. Bradshaw, J. Hodson, J. Phillltnore, J. Copley, Sir J. S. hill, Sir G. Pitt, J. Canning,ltt.Hn.G. Hart, G. V. Phipps, Om. Curteis, E. J. Berries, J. C. Rae, Rt. Hn. Cooper, IL S. Holford, G. P. Ryder, Rt. Hon. R. Comphell, A. Hope, Sir J. Rowley, Sir J. Clive,. Hen. lioldsworth, T. Ross, C. • Calvert, J. Horton, R. W. Somerset, Lord G. Croker, J. W. Mimes, W. Somerset, Lord E. Cockburn, Sir G., Innesi Sir, H. , C. Cumming, Geo., Inglis, Sir R. Sandon, Lord Chandos, Mary. of Irvine, John Strutt, J. 11. Coiirtenay, I'. P. ..Knint, Hon. T. Sumn e r, G. 11. Cuffe, J. King, lion. H. , Shifter, Sir G. Calthorpe, Hon. Knotchbull,!Sir E. Sotheron F. , CoCks, J. Kekeivith, S;T: Suttie, Sir J. Dundas,lttlin.W. Lockhart, W.-11:: Twiss, Horace . Denison, J. E. Lindsay, . • Tremayne, J. H. Drummond, 11. Lindsay, Colonel '!'rant, W. 11. D own i e , R.. Lowther, Hon: Col. Townshend,lln.H. Divett, Lowther,,Visc. Vallctort, Vise. Dunlop, J. LuOingtnn, : S. It. Ure, 111. Douglas, W. K. Lushington, Col. . Wynn, Rt. lb. C. Dalrymple, , A. Legge, lion. A. Wallace, Rt. 1111. T. East, Sir 11. ! Lamb, Hon. W. Wellesley, R. Ellis, C.: R., , . • Lovaine, Lord: Weinyss, .1. Ellison, C. Lascelles ? Hon. W. Wetherell, Sir C. Farquhar, Sir R. Mackenzie, Sir J. WellS, J. Farquhar, Js - t---- _ MINORITY. Althorp, Viset. , Gaskell, Ben. .. • Ridley, Sir M. W. !Baring, Sir 'l'. Glenorchy, Visct. Roberts, •A. W. Barnard, Viscount - Grant, .1. P. Roberts, G. J. Bernal, Ralph' Grattan, J. Robinson; Sir G. Birch, J. . Guise, Sir W. Rumbold, C. E. Broughton, it. Gordon, It. • Russell, Lord .1. , Burdett, Sir F. Hamilton, Lord A. Russell, lid W. llyng, George • Honey wood, W. P. Seirlett, J. Bentinck, Lord W. Ilium, Joseph • Scott, J. i , Blake, Sii , F. • Hurst, R. - ~ :; ! Sebrigh 1, Sir J. Butterworth ' •J. James, IV. , ~:• .:- '.: Smith, J. Buxton, T.F. Jervoise, G. P. Smith, lt". Caleraft, J. Laboucliere,.ll.' Stanley, lion. B. Calvert, C. Leycester, R. Sykes, D. Calvert, N. Lushington, Dr. ..., Tavisteek,• Mnrq. of Carter,' J. Lawley, F.' Tennyson, C. Caulfield, Hon. H. Lethbridge, Sir Ti Tierney, Rt. Hn.G. Cavendish, 0; ' Moberly, J. ' Townshend, Ld. C: Clifton, Viscount Maberly, W. L. Warre, J. 'A. ' • Colborne, N. R. Marjoribanks, S. - Webb, li: Creevey, Thos. Martin, J. ' ' Western, C. C. Crompton; S. Mettle, Hon. W. ' • , Whltbretitl, W. H. Cradock, S. . Milbank, M. Whitbread, S. C. Corbett, Penton Illonck, JIB. , Williams, J. Denison, W. J. Moore, Peter NVilson, Sir R. Denman, T.' Newport, Sic J. . Wyvill, M Duneannon, Visct. Ord, W. Wrottesley, Sir J. Duntlas, lion.,'. Osborn, Lord F. ' Whitmore, W. W. Ebrington, Viitct. Paltrier,. C. F. Wall, C. B. Ellice, E. Palmer, C. 'r ra.r.tits. Evans. IVrn. - . Pelltiim, J. C. ' ..- Abercromby, Hn.J. Fitzgerald, Rtrfon. ' Phillips, G. . "qlohhoufie, .1. C. AL. • ' Phillips, U. Jun. . ' ...-. i'AIRP.I) Orr. Fergusson, Sir It. Parnell, Sir H. linlies, W. L. Fitzroy, Lord C. ' Rice, T. S. ' Wilkins, W. Alcssrs. Alucdonald, Haring, and Grenfell, came to the House, after the door was shut fur the Division: ' 2. Mr. William Smith—Motion regarding the Slave Popula tion in the Colonies of Demerara .anti Berbice. . • ORDERS OP T/M 11)4Y. . 1. Election Laws (Ireland) Amen d inent Bill—SeCond reading. 2.: Spring Guns Bill—Sea:m(l reading.:. „ • 2.: Linsenpal Unions (Ireland) Bill—Committee. . . Friday,, Aprid 21. _ . • . ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Alehouses Licenses' Bill—Second reading. 2. Bribery at Elections Bill—Further consideration of Report. 3. Fisheries Bill—Further consideration of Report. 4. Potteries Regulation Bill—Second reading. 5. Bank Charter Amendment Bill—Committee. 6. Silk Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. • Tuesday, April 25. Sir Matthew Ridley—Papers relating to the 'conduct of Ma gistrates in New South Wales. - Tuesday, May 23. Mr. Wolrych Whitmore—Resolutions relating. to the Duties on East India and Foreign Plantation Sugar. /JUICE OF STOCKN Tills I) 1Y .vr ONE O • CLoCK. Mink Stock 0 01 b 200 Old Annuities . 3 per Cent. Bed. 7Bsi New Ditto ' — ; per Cent. Cons. - Ex. Billsl 000/.2d. 13 9 ptn. 34 per Cent. Ditto Bed. 4 per Cent. New . 9511 Ditto Advertised Bank Long Ann. 19 1.16 3.16 - Bank for Acct. India Stock — India for Acct. Ditto Bonds 5 6 pm. I Cons. for Acct. South Sea Stock - . - PRICES OF FOREIGN F Aur►+iBn Mix, 5 per cent.... Brazilian Btls LINDs AT ONE O'CLOCK Neapolitan, 1824 Perur ian Bonds 23i 6 Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto New Russian, New, p.e 77 Spanish 1821'; p.c ti I.IZ 1023 French Rentes, 5 p. Exchange ... —f. —c. 3 p. c. Exchange —c• Buenos Ayres lids Chihun Bas, f; per ct. — Colooibino Bds Do. 1824 434 4 3/ Danish. 3 p. et. ....... 56i (ireek Bds Do. 11126 oatitnala Mexican lids. Do. 1825 PRICES,OF SIIALIES AT ONE o'cr.ocK• Per Share. • . Brazilian Mining Company British Iron Mining Company Pasco Peruvian Mining Company Tialpimahua Alining -Company Protector Fire Ashuranee Company. Canal Gas Engine Company • • FOUL IGN AtAll.s. ,Aitnivri). Dur. Guernsey and Jersey - I U Gottenburgh . . . 0 a 'Tolland - ' - - 0 1 Mandeb, - - - 0 1 Jamaica - - . 1 0 1114111 WATRIt ATI,ON DON BRIDGE TO-5101t1W11'. %ming, 13 minutes after 8. i Evening, 45 minutes after B. PARMA M ENTARY PROCEEDI NG S. NOTICES of MOTION'S, and ORDERS:of the DAV, which now sand on the ORDER-BOOK of the HOUSE ; of COMMONS for the .ENSUING WEEK. • Mondi.q, April 17. Ok"l'IlE DAY. 1. Usury Laws Repeal UM-Second reading. 2. Larceny. Laws ;341-Further. consideration of Report. 3. Criminal Justiof consideration of Report. 4. Shire Balls Rill-Second reading. 5. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill-Xtirther consideration of 6. il Clerkship ert Enrolments . Bill-Committee. • , 7. Quarter -masters Second reading. O. Valuation of Ireland. Bill.. Committee. 9. East India Writers Bill-Committee. 10. Prison Laws( Ireland )Bill-,-Further consideration of Report. 11. Supply-Committee. 12. Ways and Al eans-Coriimittee. 13. Supply-Further consideration of Resolutions (postponed 211 ;March.) 14, Insolvent Debtor. Bill-Adjourned proceeding on Third i reading, 15. Civil 11111 Process (Ireland) Bill-Committee. 16. Innkeeper's Bill-Report. 17. Distillation (Scotland) Bill-Report. N. Skin Duties Repeal Bill-Committee. 19. Disembodied Militia Bill-Second reading. 20. Assessed Taxes Composition Bill-Committee. 21. President of Board of rfrade Bill-Committee. 22. Fishery Bounties (Ireland) Act-Committee thereupon. . 23. Exchequer Bills (Public Works) Bill-Second reading. 24. Stage Coaches Bill--Second reading. • NOTICES or MOTIONS. ' 1. Mr. spring Rice-To move, in Committee on Church Rates (Ireland) Bill, a Clause einpowering the Protestant Parish ioners to assess the respective Parishes for assisting towards the building, enlargement, and repairs of Presbyterian Meet ing-houses and Roman Catholic Chapels. 2. 111 r, Grattan-In Committee on Church Rates (Ireland) liilV to introduce i Clause for enabling Parishes to relieve the Poor in certain cases. 3. Sir John Newport-In Committee on Church Rates (Ire land) Bill, to repeal 4 Geo. 4, c. HO, s. 5, concerning repairs of the Church of an adjoining Parish , 4. Mr. Martin (of Galway):--41ill to prevent the cruel anti lin proper treatineat of Dogs. • - Tuesday, Aprlllo. • NoTxcEs OF ""CMIL 1. Mr. Woolrych Whinnore-Alotion regarding the Corn Laws. 2. Sir Francis Burdett-List of all Causes that have been heard by the Lord Chancellor :during the ,Last eighteen years, whereing Judgment has not yet been given, specifyin g t h e time when heard; comprising all Petitions in cases of Bank ruptcy already heard, but not decided. 3. Mr. flume--Returnti'of the number of Appeals from the Colonies to the Appeal:Courts since the Peace. 4. Dlr. Ilunie-List.of Debtors in the Prisons in Great Britain. ORDERS O THE DAY. 1. Local Jurisdictions ( Ireland) Bill—Cotnmittee. 2. Manor Courts (Ireland) Bill—Report. 3. Impounding of Cattle (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 4. Debtor and Creditor Arrangement Bill—Further considera tion of Report. 5. Customs Collection Bill Further consideration of Report. 6. Excise Laws Amendment Bill—Committee. Wednewlay, April 19. NoTtcEs of MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Littleton—Resolalo - nrelsting to Committees on Private 2. Mr. Cressett Pelham—To move Resolutions for occasionally holding the Parliaments in the Capitals of the Kingdom; other thattin London.. 3. Mr. Butur—Select Committee to inquire what Laws exist ' 1 wine I interfere with the &rade and Manufacture of the United Kingclitm, in its deta 4. Ai r,Sprin g Rica.—Bill for consolidating and amending the La" t"Pecting the paving, lighting, and watching Cities and feints in Ireland. 5. • Mr. John Peter Grant—Bill to amend the Wrongous prisonment Act of Scotland. • Thursday, April 20. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill for the Registration of Aliens. THE S N. LON1)()N , SATURDA' EVE2VIIVG, APRIL 16, 1826. Although the fall of Missoloughi can admit no doubt after the details that have reached us, of the Egyptian forces having established them selves in the fort commanding the entrance Of (ho harbour, We are still IA ithoitt any authentic confirmation of that event. The Paris Journals, received last night, give ex. tracts 'from the Ale:trial: Observer of the 3d, slhirlt is silent ou the subject, as also is the Augsbiegh Gazette, which in a preceding num ber, had announced Missolonghi to be in pos session of the Turks. We are glad to see that the details, in the Austrian ^Observer of the 3d, do not bear out the assertion of, the Turks . • having indiscriminately slaughtered the gar. risons of Vassalidi and Anatolico. Tlie former of those fortresses being carried by storm, the greater part of the garrison fell in the attack, but the garrison of Anatolie°, seeing that further resistance would be fruitless, laid down their arms, on condition of being permitted to retire with their effects in the direction of Arta. It is stated that some days before the capitulation, 100 Turkish prisoners had been put to death by the Governor of A natolico. It will be seen by the subjoined extracts from a Frankfort Paper of the 7th, and a number of the Austrian Observer "received this morning, that the Greeks still continued in that disorganized slate, which has so long rendered their cause hopeless, in the opinion of such as were apprized of the jealousy and distraction prevailing instheir councils:— SMYWITA, .31Ancir 3. The Oriental Specta4or contains a Lettpr froin Syra - of 19th February, of which the following is an extract " Ibrahim presses Missolonghi very closely, and has erected batteries to destroy' the works of the town. A Greek Bishop escorted by two Turkish officers, has arrived at Constantinople, to induce the besieged to listen to reason, and to save them from inevitable ruin. But this measure, prompted by humanity and sound policy, has led to no result. " As for the fleets of Hydra and Spezzia, they were at anchor in the gulph of Lepanto, under the fort of.Vassiladi, where they thought thetmtelves safe; when the Turks advanced to attack them terror and confusion spread among the Greeks, who cut their cables and fled in the greatest disorder. It was thus Ad miral Miaulis escaped. The Hydriots suffered the must, and have retreated to Hydra to repair. " In the Mores the Greeks have not been able to do any thing to promote their cause. Colocotroni has attempted a• coup de main on Tripolizza, where Ibrahim left 800 men. This garri son made an unexpected sally, and the Greeks were cut to pieces by 200 cavalry, and afterwards by the infantry. The re mains of the Greek corps retreated towards Napoli, but the Government could not allow them to be admitted, and Coleco trOni threatened to enter by ferce. Thus a civil war is expected to be renewed, and the more so as the troops demand their pay, and whether from want of money, or some other reason, no at tention is paid to them. The funds brought to Greece have been squandered, Heaven kpows how. But if the Greeks have not heen able to advance a step during the absence of Ibrahim, what hope will remain wilen.the E gyp tia n army returns from its ex- pedition ? 6 ' Besides Patras, Ibrahim has caused the two forts of Le panto to be given up to him, u making part of the Government of the Morea. He has a quantity of faseines prepared to fill up the ditches of Missolonglii."--(Frattifort Paper, April 7.) • VIEWN'A, APR/ L 2. -The supplies of provisions and ammunition conveyed by the Greeks to Misselonghi at the end of January, seem not to be sufficient to preserve the town kom want for, Iv length of time. On the contrary, the Provisional Governmegkat Napoli is reproached with having dissipated the large sumaerVing from the English loans, instead of paying the arrears due to the brave defenders of Misselonghi, and sending to their relief a sufficient number of ships with ammunition and provisions. —The troops in the Mores, too, clamorously demand their arrears ; and It is generally 'affirmed that Colocotroni, since his return from his unsuccessful attempt on Tripolizzs, has assumed a threatening tone towards the Govern ment at Napoli, and is supported by part of the Captains of the Dydriot ships. Time will chew whether, under such circumstances, the assembly of Greek Deputies convoked, first to Argos, and since to Megara, to choose a new Government, will really take place, and if it does, whether the. members of the present Government will be comprised in, confirmed, or , still greater dissentious excited by the election of others.-- ( Austrian Observer, April 2.) The Brussels Oracle of • the 11th instant, re ceived this moruing,gives the particulars of an ac dident which lately happened to the king of the NETHERLANDS. Ifis'Majesty, in visiting the new buildings forming the left wing of the Pa. lace, incautiously entering one of the windoWs, in which the floor was not yet laid, slipped be. tween the rafters, which, however, catching his arms, supported him until he was released by his attendants from so dangerous a situation :--- llaussaLs, APRIL 10. During the short stay which his Alajesty made at Brussels, he went to visit the building forming the left wing of the , Royal Palace -.which his Majesty has given to. Prince Fre. derick. . Nye heard a great deal at the time of an acci dent which happened to his Majesty, and might have had , very serious consequences : all our Journals have thought - proper to observe entire silence on the subject. This silence , has been broken by the Journal, of. Matthieu Lansbergh, pub lished at Liege, which, in an article dated Brussels 6th, relates the affair as follows : " The King lately went to see the state of the work, and the new arrangement of the building. He went through the seve ral apartments, some of which are not yet finished, or even floored. In one of the upper r::oms, where the floor was not laid, his Majesty, not seeing the danger, trod on the lath and plaster, forming the ceiling of the room below. It gave way, and his Majesty would have fallen through the ceiling into the roo►ta below, had he not been caught under the arms. by the two rafters. By the assistance of the persons present, and his own efforts his Majesty was extricated from this critical situation. We are assured that, with the exception of a slight scratch on the back, he has received no hurt, not even a bruise. W hen we reflect on the injury this fall might have done his Majesty, we cannot help blaming the negligence of the ,persons who at. tended.hirn. and forgot toyarn bind of the danger; for it . is still very, possible that the shock may affect his Majesty' health.",—( Brussels. Oracle, April 11,) - - Colombian Journals to. the 30th ofJailu ar i . .. hit, were received this day at t h e North anct.South ,lmerican Subscriptio n R o om. • & 5 6 P . ' 0811181 a to the Colombian Gazette of 01°4 29th, contains the particulars of the Loan hi ' tended to be contracted' for the purpose of paying off the domestic debt of the State, which passed through the Chamber of Representatives in the last Session. On this meditated renewal of attack on the pockets of the credulous, the' Bogota and pert i Constitution al nent r o e f m j a a r ks . " '2 "What 6 contains writer, kg can be formed of our national faith, if, " after having twice raised money under a solemn - " promise of r e payment, we again g o into the o p som e i opinion," !t ," very s y s j t u b S e t " market a third time for the same purpose, Ina 4 , 4 , re w i e th:ls d a y me o p w r pro mises before a single dollar has " been sent from hence to pay the interest of what " has been presented of our national,revenue i 3 " expenditure" ? The concluding passage is not mode of levying s , u a c i e d ss b i e v before r c e o a l ri n b g u l t e i o s n t s a toe: the less.forcible in depicting the real ch aracter' of OA credulity of those who are cajoled out of t hem money, on the pretended security of South. Ai n " - rican Loans, the interest on which can be Paid -- ' only out of the identical monies borrowed I s We subjoin . a copy -of the Writers Obsertia• tions on thiS subject':— . . , " The decree for raising a new loan, the proceeds of whic h are to be applied chiefly to the extinction of the domestic deb t s' which passed threngh the Chamber of Representatives ILO session, will shortly be introduced into the Senate, and we e l unwilling to miss the opportunity of making some obServatin en. relative to the expediency, or otherwise, of this measure at the' . present moment. The system of raising loans has been de nounccd very justly by the most celebrated writers on political economy as in the highest degree 'dangerous . to the preere" rity of a State, both from the pernicious consequences i t entails, and from the temptation it presents to the statesman In' recur to it on every emergency, as the readiest means of ex, tricating the country from temporary difficulties. Cieeum , stances, nevertheless, frequently occur,when its adoption itleY be justified ; and. Colombia has already seen herself under the painful necessity of applying to foreigners for that pecuniary eta which was essential to her existence. The sacrifice was imperil tire upon her, and the alternative alone could be justification. Let us see whether the same reasons hold good with regard to the proposal we have now under consideration' The principal orpiment advanced by the advocates for this loan is, that it will be the means of introducing an amount of real es" pital into circulation, in lieu of the present Government Pe er ' to PO: which has only a nominal value; that this capital, applied ductive purposes, would so much increase the wealth of the co the pleaded .1 12 he r . try, as to allow the repayment of the sums borrowed, within tr . : stipulated time, without distressing it: and that it would bort P _ height of injustice to withold any longer the payment of vill a : is due to those who are holders of this class of Government se , curities. At the same time! however,that this anioun t Of espi .